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Call Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay…
- Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly…
- The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
- Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.
- There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
- It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
- Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
- To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little…
- The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is…
- As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions…
- Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
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